Earlier this month, I traveled to the University of Washington to give a talk at the 4th Sound Systems of Latin America (SSLA 4), where I presented my ongoing work on “Final sonorant consonant devoicing in Mayan and Zapotec.” The… Continue Reading
Summer 2024 was very exciting and full! I had the opportunity to teach Spanglish: Language and Identity through Contact as a Graduate Student Instructor, which I enjoyed immensely. As soon as Summer Session 1 ended, I left for Tz’unun Ya’… Continue Reading
I recently had the pleasure of traveling to Mexico City to present at Form and Analysis in Mayan Linguistics (FAMLi VII). It was very exciting to hear about everyone’s work and to enjoy some time at UNAM and around CDMX.… Continue Reading
On October 20, I had the opportunity to present some of my research on domain generalization and the syllable at the 2023 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP), hosted online by Johns Hopkins University. My slides are available here. One day… Continue Reading
I defended my second qualifying paper, The syllable in domain generalization: Evidence from artificial language learning, at the end of the spring 2023 quarter. This paper presented experimental work showing evidence that learners may generalize phonological patterns to the syllable… Continue Reading
In July I had the opportunity to return to Santiago Laxopa for another fiesta. I got to see and learn about more of Laxopa, visit with friends, play piccolo with the band, and record some audio and video for my… Continue Reading
I am trying to get better at updating my website regularly! A great deal has happened since I last posted an update on here. Some highlights: April 2022 – HSP presentation – “It’s alive!”: Animacy-based structural expectations rapidly update with… Continue Reading
In January, Mykel Brinkerhoff, John Duff, and I presented some of our work on Tonal Patterns and their Restrictions in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the… Continue Reading
This is a bit late and out of chronological order, but I wanted to share a few photos and memories from Día de los Muertos 2021. Santa Cruz, CA has an annual festival that is a partnership between Senderos and… Continue Reading
I got to take two trips towards the end of 2021! I was very excited to travel to San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico for Form and Analysis in Mayan Linguistics VI (FAMLi 6) in November. Due to the… Continue Reading